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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
HEALTHFuL SPORT.
Historical Notes on the Ancient Exercise
OF Foot-Racng.

|
| or Foot-Racing.
| there is no kind of exercise that has
more uniformly met the appreciation of
authors in general than running. In
the Middle Ages foot-racing was con-
sidered as an essential part of young
mans education, especially if he was
the son of a man of rank, and brought
up to q military profession. 1t is need
less to assert the antiquity of this pas
time, because it will readily occur to
avery one that variety of occasions con-
;!nually present themselves which call
fprth the exertion of running even in
childhood, and, when more than one
person are stimulated by the same OBJ
ject, a competition naturally takes
place among them to obtain it.
Originally, perhaps. foot-races had
no other Indictment than emulation, or
at best the prospect of some small re-
ward; but, in the process of time. the
rewards were magnitied, and contests
of this kind were instituted at public
amusements, the ground marked out
for that purpose, and judges appointed
to decide upon the fairness of the race,
to ascertain the winner, and to bcstOw
the reward. In former times, accord
ing to Commenius, it was customary
for the places appropriated ITO foot
races to be rallied in on either side. and
the prize giyer stood at the goal to de-
liver the reward to the person who
should first touch it. He probably
means at the Olympic game, among
which foOt-racing was one.
In the present day. neither in this
country nor abroad, are foot-races
much encouraged by persons of for
tune. and seldom happen but for the
purpose of betting, and the racers are
generally paid for their performance.
In many instances the distance does not
not exceed one hundred yards. Affairs,
and upon many other occasions where |
many people are assembled together,
this species of amusement is sometimes
promoted, but most frequently the con-
test is confined to the younger part of |
the concourse.
Two centuries back, running. accord
ing to Peacham, was thought to be an |
exercise by no means derogatory to the /
rank of nobility: and poetical writer
in the celebrated Cotton manuscript,
written early in the fifteenth century, |
recommends it strongly to the practice
Of the soldiery.-G0lde5s Days.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
FARM AND FlRESIDE.
The dull hoe wastes strength.

The dull hoe wastes strength.
Better cultivate few acres thor
oughly than skim over many.
Boil cherries five minutes; the
amount of sugar to the quart is six
ounces.
Garry happiness to your home. no
matter who or what is there.-PoHeroy s
Democrat
AS a rule nearly all cases of collie
in horses are caused by mismanage-
ment in feeding and watering.
Put tea and coffee away in air-tight
receptacles as soon as they are brought
to the house. They lose much of their
flavor by standing uncovered.
Cut jewels should never be wiped
after washing. Wash carefully with
brush and CASTLE soapsuds. Rinse and
lay, face down, deep into fine sawdust
until dry; lockwood dust is best.
Ignorance is no less destructive of
profits in agriculture than in any other
calling. The successful farmer is he
who keeps abreast with improved sys-
TENS and applies common sense to his
buslness.-Farn, Field and Stockn,an.
A lazy horse can be taught to walk
fast by driving him alone and continu-
ally urging him to move as desired.
Any particular word, promptly uttered
every time the whip is applied. will
soon give him to understand what is
required. A systematic course of les
sons at short intervals must be given in
order to succeed.
"A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says: Il hold that the intel
ligent farmer, who has lived for yelrS
on his farm and knows its soil and ca
liabilities. and who has settled on plan
of farming which is successful, is more
likely to know what is best for him to
do than some one who has lived on a
different soil AID surrounded by differ
ent circumstances"
Orange Water Ice: Add a table
spoonful of geiatine to one gill of cold
water; let it stand twenty minutes and
add half pint of boiling water, stir
until dissolved, and add four ounces of
powdered sugar, the strained juice of
six oranges, and cold water enough to
make full quart in all. Stir until the
sugar is dissolved: pour into the freez-
ing can and freeke.-Farm, Field amt
StOckmdn.
Yeast: Three large potatoes pared
and boiled; when mashed add to the
potato two tablespoonfuls of flour. two
dessertspoonfuls each of salt and su-
gar, and enough scalding hot water to
make three pints of it all. When this
mixture is cool, add one-half of pre-
viously dissolved yeast cake. Let it
rise over light. In the morning stir
well and mix both flour and graham
bread with the rising. 1t will rise very
quickly.
OF all the dairy products, butter
milk is perhaps the least appreciated.
1t is more easily digested than sweet
milk, as it has undergone fermenta-
lion which is partial digestion, and
enters the stomach in loose, fiaky
Atate, easily acted upon by the gastric
juices. In some respects it resembles
koumiss. the most digestible of milk
products. 1t is decided laxative; cOun-
teracts constipation.-St. Louis RepG5-
lean.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
PRECIOUS METALS.
How the United States Is Benefited by It's
Gold and silver Product.

How the United States Is Benefited by Itl
Gold and silver Product
The gold and silver product of this
country last year was $4,000, 900, OF
which $50, 600, 900 was in gold and $51,
OOO, 900 in silver. This is larger total
than was ever before produced in one
year. though gold production alone was
largest in 1853. when it amounted to
$65, 100000. This was in the height of
the California gold excitement. Col
orado with $50, 900, 600 worth Of precious
metals per year, and Montana with
$1,000. 900, both lead California, whose
product last year was SIG, 000.0 600. These
enormous yearly outputs of the precious
metals enable this country to endure a
balance of trade against us without in
jury. In other words. we buy what we
consider more useful than gold, and
thus equalize the worlds supply of the
precious metals. 1t is only thus that these
mines could continue to be profitable
to US. Spain some centuries ago tried
to hold a monopoly of the precious
her American colonies. The result was,
the Spaniard became lazy and good for
nothing; his country grew to be the
dearest land to live in under the sun.
With plenty of money and nothing
else, there was no encouragement to
work. 1t was cheaper to buy any
thing than it was to produce it. Spain
suffered from a glut of gold and silver
by precisely the same causes which this
country suffered from during our era
of deprecated paper currency after the
war. Diffusing these large gold and
silver products through the civilized
world, they must produce increased
everywhere. Our advantage
in producing. then, will be mainly that
this fact gives us the first handling of
the money, and with nations as with
men those who have plenty of money
can do the most successful trading
Boston Budget.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
KNEE-DEEP PASTURES.
Why 1t Pays to Cultivate Tall Grasses
With Strong Roots and Tops.


Very many farmers try to raise too
great number of stock in proportion
TO the pasture land, and turn the cattle
on the pasture too early in spring.
These same men are very apt to be the
ones who crop their land to death,
rarely if ever apply any manure, and
when it is SO badly worn out that it can
no longer raise grain, they sow it down,
expecting from it as much feed as from
land that was in good heart when
seeded. They commence to pasture it
before the grasses have got a good start,
they turn on the stock early in the
spring, and keep the sod bare summer
after summer until late in the fall.
They think they are squeezing out all
there is in the land, and in one sense
they are. The pasture is made up of
individual plants. Keeping a plant
eaten offclosely destroys its assimilative
organs, and as the roots which secure
plant food, are closely related to the
tops. if the tops are eaten or dwarfed
the roots will be correspondingly small.
For the production of large supplies OF
new growth, strong, widely-ramifying
r+sots and fair-sized tops are necessary.
The roots are needed to gather the food
and the leaves to assimilate it. In the
closely-fed pasture the plants are both
small and weak. The ground is bare to
the direct rays of the sun and to the
winds which together evaporate the
surface mo ure and bake the top soil.
The moisture is evaporated from the
soil rather than from the leaves of the
plants. Land thus pastured becomes
hard, and there is nothing to prevent
rains from running off over the surface
instead of filtering down through the
soil. There is no mulch to keep the soil
cool and to protect the grass roots
during our hot, dry times in summer.
The small roots can not do much toward
renovating the soil. In fact soil often
runs down under such treatment.
In those pastures that are allowed to
keep good tops. both roots and tops will
be strong and able to develop food, to
be eaten off by the fat inha bitants of
the fields. Its widely-spreading roots
can gather nourishment, and its broad
expanse of leaves assimilate the plant
food in great quantities. 1t forms
mulch to hold rains. to pre-
vent evaporation from the soil. and
to keep the soil cool in summer.
The deeply-penetrating roots bring
the plant moisture in times of drought.
when the pasture most needs it. The
annual decay of a portion of these
strong roots furnishes great amount
OF valuable manure to the soil. They
open up the soil by leaving passages
where they have decayed. The surplus
of tops serve not only as mulch, but
also as a manure. These pastures be-
come richer and will support more
stock by strictly adhering to the '.knee-
deep" principle. Those that are grazed
and trodden too close in dry times, can
not start up so well when rains do cdhe, |
as their roots are weakened. The p4st-
ure that has large tops lasts much later |
In fall and early winter, especially if |
made up largely of Kentucky blue.
grass. which stands frosts well.-Prairn
Farmer.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Rartholdi,s Great Work.

The statue of Liberty enlightening the
world, which stands on Bedloe's Island, in
the harbor of New York, is one of the most
sublime artistic conceptions of modern
times. The torch of the goddess lights the
nations of the earth to peace, prosperity
and progress, through Liberty. But Glib
erty" is an empty word to the thousands of
poor women enslaved by physical ailments
hundredfold more tyrannical than any
Nero. To such sufferers DR.. Pierce's Favor
tie Prescription holds forth the promise Of
a speedy cure. 1t is a specific in all those
arrangements, Irregularities and weak
nesses which make life burden to so many
women The only medicine sold by drug
glsts, under positive guarantee from the
manufacturers, that it will give satisfac-
ton in every case, or money will be re-
funded. See guarantee printed on wrap
per enclosing bottle.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
LAUGHABLE SCENES.

Extraordinary Marriage Customs Obtain.
Ing Among the Transylvanian Saxons.
When the young people go to church
the day after the wedding. they are met
at the church door by Il group of masked
figures who surround them. singing and
hoOting, and observation-disclosures to sepa-
rate the young matrOn from her hus-
band. If they succeed in so doing, then
he must win her back in hand-to-hand
fight with his adversaries. or else he
must give a piece of money as her
ransom. In general it is considered a
bad omen for the married life of the
young couple if the wife be separated
from her husband on this occasion:
therefore it is customary for the young
husband to take his stand close by the
church door while his wife is PRAYING
within, and then be ready to catch hold
of her as soon rs she steps outside. For
greater precautiOn. the man often holds
her round the waist with both hands
during the dance which Immediately
takes place before the church, and at
which they assist merely as spectators,
taking no active part, as it is not con-
sidered seemly to dance in the church
attire.
As commonly several couples are
married at the same time, it is usual
for each separate wedding-party to
bring its own band of music. and dance
thus independently of the Others. On
the occasion of 4 triple wedding lately
witnessed, it was very amusing to
watch the three wedding-parties COM
ing down the street, each accelerating
Its pace till it came to be sort of race
up to the church-door to secure the
best dancing-plaee. The ground being
rough and slanting. there was only one
spot where any thing. like fiat dane
ing-fOOr could be obtained, and the
winning party at once secured this en-
viable position, while the others had to
put up with an inclined plane or a few
hillOcks aceidenting their ballroom
floor. The ten to sixteen couples be-
longing to each wedding-party are
Enclosed in ring of bystanders.
each rival band of music playing away
with heroic disregard for the scorched
ears of the listeners "Polkar' calls
out the first group; "WaIzerr' roars
the second, for it is a point of honor
that each party should display noble
independence in taking its own line of
action; and il, out of mere coincidence.
two of the bands happen to strike up
the self-same tune. one of them is sure
TO change to something totally different
as soon as aware of the unfortunate
mistake-the caterwauiing effect pro-
duced by this system battling all de-
seription. This is nothing at ALL
said the worthy pastor, from whose
garden l was overlooking the scene.
laughing at the evident dismay with
which L endeavored to stop my ears"
sometimes we have eight or ten we'd
dings at time, each with their own
fiddlers- That is something worth hear |
ing indeedr'-Popalar Science MOnthlu.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
LAWYERS WiCES.
Legal IumInaries Who Numbered In Dis
posing OF Their Wealth.

Legal Lumlnaries Who Numbered In Dis
posing OF Their Wealth.
English lawyers, when dining to-
gether a hundred years ago. used to
toast 1.-THE schoolmasters," who then
wrote wills and. by their ignorance,
gave the profession much remunerative
business. In this country the following
toast used to be favorite at dinners of
the bar: ITO the lawyers best friend
the man who makes his own will"
Both the letter and the spirit of this
toast have been illustrated by the litiga-
ton which has arisen over the wills of
lawyers, made by themselves. Lord St
Leonards. one of the most distinguished
of the Lord Chancellors of England of
the present century, left will, drawn
up by himself, which caused long and
costly litigation. Joseph Jekyll, an
excellent lawyer. left his fortune to pay
the national debt, and the court set it
aside on the ground of imbecility. ''Sir
Joseph" said Lord Mansfield, might
as well have attempted to stop the mid
die arch of Blackfriars' bridge with his
full-bottomed wig. =
Lord Mansfield's will was written by
himself on half sheet of paper, and
not in the usual form; but it proved
valid for the disposal of property to the
amount of two and a half million
pounds sterling. Lord Stowell was
eminent as Judge, but ''near" as a
man. In order to save the legacy duty
he, during his lifetime, made over to
his son William the twenty thousand
pounds intended for him. But the son,
who died first, made a will, leaving the
amount to his father, who was thus
obliged to pay the duty. His Lordship
bequeathed it to Lady Sidmouth, and
after his death the legacy was con-
tested.
There are many instances exmnt of
great lawyers laundering in the making
of their own wills, and there is one case
where lawyer purposely left his will
obscure. SERGEANT Maynard, an emf
nent black-letter lawyer, had perplexed
himself over some very fine points of
law. He, therefore, left will worded
in such terms as would cause litigation
to arise on the points he wished the
courts to settle.-Youth's Companion.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
An INGENIOUS MACHINE.
Description of n New and Powerful Riva
of the Compositor.

Description Of \ New and Powerful Rival
of the Composition.
The art of Typography is just now on
The eve of great and sudden reTolu-
ton. On the LIST of July, 1886, ma
chine was set up in the Tribune cOmpO-
sing room in this city, the employment
OF which its inventor claimed would not
only make type-setting unnecessary in
newspaper, book aud job printing Of
fees, but enable printers and publishers
to substitute comparatively unskilied
labor for that of the compositOrs now
employed. A large book has been
printed by the Tribune Association by
the aid of the machine, and a consider
able and constantly increasing portion
of the Tribune is produced by the same
means. Whitelaw Reid is president of
the company that owns the right to
build the machines. o. Mergenthaler,
of Baltinaore is the inventor.
The machine / refer to is not the
mechanical typesetter which has been
an operation in the Tribune office six or
seven years, and is also used To some
extent elsewhere. That employs types
similar to those used in ordinary hand
composition, which are arranged into
words and lines by an ingenious
mechanism, operated by means of keys
like those on a typewriter. The new
machine doesn't use type at all, but
actually makes little stereotype bars,
each one just as long, as wide and
as high as a line of type from which a
newspaper or book is printed, each
containing a line of words on its sur
face, pro9erly justified and ready in
every respect for the printing press.
These bars may be produced singly, or
any number of duplicates up to six may
be made by one operation.
To produce these results a rather
complicated machine has been invented
which it would be difficult to describe
without the use of technical terms and
diagrams. l shall not, therefore, at
tempt it. In general terms the operator
manipulates it as he would typewriter
As he strikes the KEYS a series of cor
responding dies are brought into place.
and when enough have been arranged
to make a line of print they are auto
matically removed to metal pot, where
the molten metal is forced into them.
thus casting one of the bars already
described. The bars are cooled by a
bisst of air, while the dies go back and
are distributed by The machine to their
original places. All this is accomplished
automatically without the operators
suspend'ng his work, ali assistant re-
ceiving the bars after they are com
pleted and arranging them in columns.
After the printing has beea completed
the bars are thrown back into the meta!
pot and remelteu, so that the printing is
always done from new, fresh face
In three or four months person can
become an expert operator upon ma
chine One operator and an assistant
can do rs much work rs SIX fast COM
positors.-N Y. Cor. Philadelphia Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

FooD makes Blood and Blood makes
Beauty. Improper digestion of food neces;
sarily produces bad blood, resulting in q
feeling of fullness in the stomach, acidity,
heartburn, sick-headache, and other dys-
peptic symptoms. A closely confined lie
causes indigestion, constipation, bilious
ness and loss of appetite. foremove these
troubles there is no remedy equal to Prick.
ly Ash Bitters. It has been tried and
proven to be a specific.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
xTHEsE earthquake quivers are very 'ar
rowing.

MA$I People refuse to take Cod Liver
Oil on account OF its unpleasant taste
This difficulty has been overcome in SCOTS
Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophos-
phites. 1t being as palatable as milk, and
the most valuable remedy known for the
treatment Of Consumption, Scrofula and
Bronchitis, General Debility, Wasting Dis
eases of Children, Chronic Coughs and
Colds, has caused physicians in all parts OF
the world to use it Physicians report our
little patients take it with pleasure. Try
Scott's Emulsion aud be convinced.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The Crown Prince of Italy is q
very clever young man. He is only
eighteen years of age, but can speak
fluently five or six languages. He can
talk strategy with General OF science
with a scientist.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

To Relieve Asthma.-Wet blotting
paper in strong solution of saltpeter;
dry it and burn piece three inches
square on plate in sleeping room,
and it will afford quick relief. India
71apolis Sentinel.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The three RS brought Regret, Reproach
and Remorse TO a great political party in
1884. The three P's, when signifying DR..
Pierce's Purgative Pellets, bring. Peace to
the mind, Preservation and Perfection OF
health to the body.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

There were ave fair sisters. and each had a
aim
Flora would fam be . fashionable dame;
Scholarly SuEan's selection was books;
Coquettish Cora cared more for good looks;
Anna. ambitious, aspired after wealth:
Sensible Sarah sought nrst for good health
So she took DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and grew healthy aud blooming.
Cora's beauty quickly faded; Susan's eye
sight failed from over-study; Flora became
nervous and fretful in striving after fash
ion, and sickly family kept Annals hus-
band poor. But sensible Sarah grew daily
more healthy, charming and intelligent,
and she married rich
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The world astounded with the startling
and new disclosures of science on the poi
sonous effects of the alcohol in wine, beer,
of Demorest's Monthly. Price 20 cents.
Sold everywhere, or address w. Jennings
Demorest, Is East 14th Street, N. Y.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

r. W. TASsILL & Co, Chicago:
Everybody wants "Tansill's Punch" sc
cigar now; they were always good but OF
late they have improved. l heartily ap-
proye of YOUR way of doing business, you
are sure to hold and increase your trade.
A. AREND, Druggist, Chicago, Ill
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

THE girls argue that men don't like
bangs because they (the mem are Jealous,
which is about the solid truth and not
much credit to the girls after all.-Aer-
chant Traveller.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Southern Arizona consumes nearly
FIVE million pounds of wheat and flour
in excess of the amount it grows. The
water bitches now in course of con-
struction will in part, if not entirely, do
away with this importation.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

In making purchases. if a man does not
pay down Immediately he is expected to
pay up soon.-N o. Picayune
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Parrots and the dudes have much in
common. They have plentiful lack OF
brains and talk in polly -syllables.- Boston
Gazette
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

A VIGILANCE committee should always
be accompanied in its expeditions by ar
ambulance committee.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

PARTY lines-rows of wallfowers.-Bur
Rngton Free Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The man who is caught relieving the
wood pile in the middle of the night i:
naturally a lantern jawed fellow.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

An exchange wants to know ''what pro-
duct has the greatest acreageP' Corn
And on the foot it is the greatest cause of
acher rage.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

WHAT is that which lives in winter, dies
in summer. and grows with its roots up
wardl An icicle.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The livery horse is not so much OF q
charger as the chap that runs the stable
X0nkers Gazette
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

A LOCOMOTIVE that blows to pieces is
new mechanical toy.